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Online teaching courses are becoming an appealing alternative to traditional in-class learning methods, therefore driving practitioners to explore new strategies for delivering contents to an overwhelming number of students. Nevertheless, migrating face-to-face learning methodologies to an online teaching environment is certainly challenging. More specifically, collaborative work, which provides valuable...
In this paper we present the new version of the LSMaker Robot, an educational platform designed by La Salle — Ramon Llull University to be used as facilitator of acquisition of concepts in all engineering curricula and, at the same time, a new companion as a robotic classmate. The new version of the LSMaker, named LSMaker EV1, changes from a full customized to an open source Arduino-based hardware...
Many of the new teaching methods that currently exist are based on collaborative learning. Indeed, cooperative work adds value to the processes of teaching and learning, allowing the acquisition of the Key Skills with greater ease and effectiveness. One of the fundamental factors to implement these methodologies based on cooperative work is the definition and formation of heterogeneous working groups...
Teaching methods based on lectures often result in student passivity rather than pro-activity with the only goal of the student being to pass the final exam. Consequently, content retention is temporary and true learning is not achieved. Lack of student motivation can be solved by using Active Learning methodologies: serious games, Project-Based Learning (PBL), blended learning, etc. In addition,...
In this paper we present an educational resource called LSMaker, a caterpillar mobile robot that has been introduced in the curricula of Engineering Education. The platform has been used to link subjects, so common tasks and challenges have been defined. We are looking for updating contents and educational methodology, enhancing the motivation of students and not less important, increasing the number...
Current intelligent tutoring systems are focused on the learning process of students without taking into account interactions with the rest of their classmates, i.e., considering each student as an isolated individual. This paper proposes a new approach, called Intelligent Tutoring of Virtual Learning Communities (ITVLC), able to enhance the learning process from both individual and collaborative...
This paper aims to show the need to apply new teaching methods that enable effective learning in the teacher training in the current education system. The immersion in Information and Communications technology (ICT) must play an important role in this training because it is an absolutely essential tool for the implementation of these methodologies. The new Master in Teacher Training (called MUFP)...
Learning and teaching methods at universities are under a constant review process as long as students' goals and profiles are continuously changing. In the recent years, several pragmatic teaching approaches have been proposed aimed at enhancing the global learning process (i.e., learning by doing). Apparently, these novel learning techniques are against the classic master-class teaching model since...
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